My Thread - Page 6

Knothead · 08-25-2002, 08:22 PM

Wait...did he say syllogism?

Example:

God is Love.

Love is blind.

therefore.....

Ray Charles is God. Solved that, time for dinner!

Brainchild · 08-25-2002, 08:42 PM

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did he say syllogism

nope he said spoonerisms

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Reverend Spooner's Tips of the Slung

Rear Deeders, how your beds. Let us salute the eponymous master of the verbal somersault, the Rev. William Archibald Spooner. He left us all a legacy of laughter. He also gave the dictionary a new entry: spoonerism. The very word brings a smile. It refers to the linguistic flip-flops that turn "a well-oiled bicycle" into "a well-boiled icicle" and other ludicrous ways speakers of English get their mix all talked up.

English is a fertile soil for spoonerisms, as author and lecturer Richard Lederer points out, because our language has more than three times as many words as any other - 616,500 and growing at 450 a year. Consequently, there's a greater chance that any accidental transposition of letters or syllables will produce rhyming substitutes that still make sense - sort of.

"Spooner," says Lederer, "gave us tinglish errors and English terrors at the same time."

Now that's cool

,errr cat's Thool

08-25-2002, 09:12 PM

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So which one of the handwriting samples is you?

Could not all of us fit every description to some degree? Are not all of us not unlike cut gems, with many facets? Is not handwriting analysis one of the "soft" sciences? Ahh.. but I tend to over-analyze sometimes methinks.

Megalos, your inner puppy thanks you *yipyip* So do I. I think we all dooog.

I would ascribe to you the Ultimate in ISMs, ISMS. Check it out. Remember, the fungus IS among us.

howste · 08-25-2002, 11:02 PM

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sol·ip·sism
n. Philosophy
1) The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.
2) The theory or view that the self is the only reality.

If I were a crane, maybe it could be a solipsism.

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A bird's leg receives three times as much blood per heartbeat as its pectoral muscles (the largest muscles in a bird's body). What this means is there is great potential for loss of body heat through a birds legs and feet. Now take this information and apply it to a bird like a crane that has extremely long legs and webbing between its toes. This provides a lot of surface area for heat loss and therefore energy loss. By standing on one leg, a crane is able to keep the other leg up close to its body and feathers to reduce heat loss. It is very similar to the way we pull our arms in close to our chest when we get cold, it reduces the amount of skin exposed to the cool air (or water in the case of a crane) and keeps us warmer!